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That night—let thick darkness seize it! Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.
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I am not at ease, nor am I quiet; I have no rest, but trouble comes.”
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so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
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When I lie down I say, ‘When shall I arise?’ But the night is long, and I am full of tossing till the dawn.
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Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that you set a guard over me?
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Though I am in the right, I cannot answer him; I must appeal for mercy to my accuser.
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Though I am in the right, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.
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I am blameless; I regard not myself; I loathe my life.
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For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together.
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Then I would speak without fear of him, for I am not so in myself.
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although you know that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of your hand?
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If I am guilty, woe to me! If I am in the right, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look on my affliction.
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For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in God's eyes.’
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But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?
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I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called to God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.
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What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.
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“He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit.
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But you, come on again, all of you, and I shall not find a wise man among you.
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Behold, I cry out, ‘Violence!’ but I am not answered; I call for help, but there is no justice.
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He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone, and my hope has he pulled up like a tree.
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My breath is strange to my wife, and I am a stench to the children of my own mother.
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When I remember, I am dismayed, and shuddering seizes my flesh.
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if you lay gold in the dust, and gold of Ophir among the stones of the torrent-bed,
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Therefore I am terrified at his presence; when I consider, I am in dread of him.
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yet I am not silenced because of the darkness, nor because thick darkness covers my face.
